Our vice president, Gary C. Norman, Esq., has been selected by the Maryland State Bar Foundation to receive the highest award of the Maryland State Bar Association – the Edward F. Shea, Jr., Award for Professionalism.

 

According to an article published in the newspaper of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Md. Bar Bulletin, the award is given annually to a young attorney under the age of 38 who demonstrates the kind of qualities that has made the legal profession the guardian of social and legal justice, professionalism and pro bono service.  Named after a former president of the MSBA; the award comes in the form of a crystal baseball plate in commemoration of Mr. Shea’s second avocation – the Baltimore Orioles.

 

Norman will receive the award at a swanky reception that will be hosted in connection with the annual conference of the bar association in Ocean City during June 2008.

 

Norman indicated that he is honored to receive the award and that he hopes this will impress on his able-bodied colleagues of the contributions lawyers with disabilities can render to their profession and society as a whole.